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Showing posts with label Star Bears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Bears. Show all posts

1 May 2026

UPDATED: All the Bears

There's a story to be unpicked somewhere about all the following characters and, right now, I'm not sure how it all hangs together so I just need to start somewhere by working out all the instances of the character appearances that I've found so far.

The characters are Star BearsScare Bears and Were Bears...

UPDATE (01/05/26): Here's a 48 page long, full colour, A4 sized comic that I've never seen before...

and here's the back page...

So the comic contents are as follows...
1). front cover - 1 page
2). Scare Bears meet the St. John badgers - 2 pages, new material
3). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)
4). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)
5). Scare Bears - 12 pages
6). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #2)
7). map of the events going on in Hyde Park that day - 2 pages
8). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprint from Zodiac comic #3)
9). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (possible reprint from Zodiac comic #4)
10). Star Bears - 6 pages, (possible reprint from Zodiac comic #4)
11). Scare Bears - 3 pages, reprinted from Zodiac comic #2
12). advert - 1 page
13). rear cover - 1 page


UPDATED: I've found an image of the Scare Bears stickers (25 in a pack for 24p!) so I've added that in below...

1). Star Bears 
Created by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas
Here and here I looked at Z comic...

...which has 4 pages of Star Bears content...

...and then there was the sticker book (here)

And in this book there's a 6 page strip...
Here's an example page...


2). Scare Bears 
Illustrated by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas
Illustrated by George Nicholas
This featured in the sticker book (here)




Here and here I looked at Z comic...

which featured a 4 page Scare Bears strip


there was also the Scare Bears monster party book that I looked at here

The Scare Bear also feature on the cover of 'Cartoon Aid' which I looked at here

and this has two newspaper style strips


plus this full-colour 12-page strip (illustrated by George Nicholas - my list of his work here)

3). 
Were Bears
 
another comic from George Nicholas - which I looked at in more detail here - a title from 1990/1. So I'm assuming that the Scare Bears evolved into Were bears




29 December 2024

UPDATED: All the Bears

There's a story to be unpicked somewhere about all the following characters and, right now, I'm not sure how it all hangs together so I just need to start somewhere by working out all the instances of the character appearances that I've found so far.

The characters are Star BearsScare Bears and Were Bears...

UPDATED: I've found an image of the Scare Bears stickers (25 in a pack for 24p!) so I've added that in below...

1). Star Bears 
Created by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas
Here and here I looked at Z comic...

...which has 4 pages of Star Bears content...

...and then there was the sticker book (here)

And in this book there's a 6 page strip...
Here's an example page...


2). Scare Bears 
Illustrated by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas
Illustrated by George Nicholas
This featured in the sticker book (here)




Here and here I looked at Z comic...

which featured a 4 page Scare Bears strip


there was also the Scare Bears monster party book that I looked at here

The Scare Bear also feature on the cover of 'Cartoon Aid' which I looked at here

and this has two newspaper style strips


plus this full-colour 12-page strip (illustrated by George Nicholas - my list of his work here)

3). 
Were Bears
 
another comic from George Nicholas - which I looked at in more detail here - a title from 1990/1. So I'm assuming that the Scare Bears evolved into Were bears






9 September 2022

Z comic - issue 2

I've looked previously here and here at "Z comic" - a comic produced by the Zodiac toy shops.

A 48 page full-colour comic (sadly my copy is only 44 pages long - the centre page poster having being whipped out of my copy). Issue 1 had no price on it, this is priced at 45p but then says "free with the compliments of Zodiac" - so I'm not quite sure what's going on there. Anyway, 48 pages fortnightly and free(-ish) is a lot of content to be putting out. I'm unclear how many further issues there were.




I haven't scanned example of ALL the strips, instead these are just to give you a flavour of the comic...

Star bears

Miami mice

Socca bear

Martin and the Martians - by Gibas/Benson


If you're interested in the stickers (see advert below) then check out this previous post I did on the subject...